I've just tried to build coreutils and got this:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
sort.c: In function 'debug_key':
sort.c:2207: error: ignoring return value of 'strtold', declared with
attribute warn_unused_result
Here's the fix:
From ec0d6ddb813e95a01421b45f1743713e88175448 Mon
On 08/09/10 09:25, Bruno Haible wrote:
The contents of the 'allocated' buffer is scratch, therefore malloc + free
should be faster than realloc...
Also, the '3 * (lena + lenb)' guess is pessimistic; it is possible that
it may return with ENOMEM when in fact strxfrm's real needs would not
Hi Paul,
All I'm saying is that the gnulib variant shouldn't
use a name starting with mem, because the mem* names have similar
properties and the gnulib variant departs dramatically from these
properties.
The strdup/strndup functions are cases in point. Their names were
controversial,
On 08/11/10 02:38, Bruno Haible wrote:
extern char * astrxfrm (const char *s, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp);
Yes, that looks like a useful addition. Thanks for the suggestion.
